Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.