They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner….

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes..

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible..

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojo….

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing….

You must always work..

You have to go, but I have to stay..

You have to create something from nothing..

You can't be what you can't see..

You can't be pro-business unless you're pro education..

You can start your day over anytime..

You are dead- what am I speaking to?.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify….

Women don't have an expiration date..

With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin..

Where music leads, I follow..

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly..

What got you here won't get you there..

We've got a lot of love here, and for me that's what family is all about..

Wear the outfit; don't let the outfit wear you..

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!.