What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?

I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.

If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more competitive.

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.