You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to lose your sense of self.

I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.

Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do—but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.

A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

If no words come, you can always give him the finger.