I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing..

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

When you have to jump, you jump..

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise.".

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two t….

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go..

A problem is a chance for you to do your best..

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple..

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up..

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion..

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways....

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack….

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity..

The older I get, the older old is..

I thought equality was non-negotiable..

It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you..

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

I've always been a daydreamer..

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open..