The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.
By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight. . . Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
See I need you in my life for me to stay No no no no no I know you'll stay Oh no no no no don't go away
When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.
Everybody cryin' mercy When they don't know the meaning of the word.