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

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.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.