I'm not a wild and crazy person.

I love being in a band.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

I'm not a wild and crazy person.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I don't exist without writing.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I'm not a partygoer.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach.

Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

I was in the Black Power movement. I feel as energized about Black Lives Matter. I don't feel in any way separated from Black Lives Matter. I do believe we are hand and glove. I am the legislative tool.

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

'The Little Mermaid' changed my life.

That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

A boy needs his mother’s respect. Not only her love, but also her respect.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.