These Quotes

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, "Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza." I was like, "Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!"

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.