If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.
The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
Ocean waters. . oceans deep. . Serious poets never sleep.
I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.
The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
The last thing I want to do. . . is offend people and ostracize myself.