By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.
Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
You never know when you're making a memory.
I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.
Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious than gold. Love, I have read, is hot. But hate is the verb that to me is superb, And Love but a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. . . But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.