Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
Art is the accomplice of love.
There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together. . . and shake the forest to its roots.
We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.