I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.
This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.
The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.
There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se. . . but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
A view of heaven from a seat in hell.
My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.
I still got the nasty in me.
I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this. '
The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.