I don't have 'gears. ' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.
We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
The ways we miss our lives are life.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
As soon as I came to L. A. , I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!
I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him. . . Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.
Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off. . . Once the old things were broken off, amazingly beautiful things grow in their place.