Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.
Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.
My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.
We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset. " The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn. "
To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.
Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.