(...) pick up your axe, start at the rootsdon't miss the trunk, never forget:to end life truly and finallystart at the roots or end there.

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.

Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.

This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration.

Is it all just a psychotic dream? What is life?

I could be the ceaseless mist that fogs your colourless eyes when you're lost in your universes.

A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".

You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".

Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.