When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

I would have had fun doing just about anything.

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

I am constantly amazed on every level at how lucky I am.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

Your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster.

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it