I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat
I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.
I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.