Music is the melody whose text is the world.
I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.
I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.
People can smell the bullshit and see through the curtains. People know when something's real and when something isn't, and when some dude really means what he's saying or singing, or when he doesn't.
Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.
We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.
Reality is blocked by form and image.