An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
I wish you luck with a capital F.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge
The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.