Never seek illicit wealth.
Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.
Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.
I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.