When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Money. The dark obsession of the human race.

be the rain that causes the rainbow this means, tell someone the hard truth to change their life for the better.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.

No means everything to a dog, nothing to a cat.

I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.