Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
I've never. . . when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.
My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.