I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.
I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.
There's no such thing as a meaningless, worthless, or stupid dream.