Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that.
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times. ' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A. A. D. Almost a Doctor.
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.
I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.
On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again