[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
The less I say the more my work gets done.
As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same
From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. . . The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.