Trust nothing but your own experience.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.
For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.
It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of the supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.