I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
I shall die very young. . . maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.
Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.
Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.
Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.
So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics. "