I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals. "
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job. ' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
Food simply isn't important to me.
My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.
No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.