“Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.”

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I’ve drunk in a lifetime,

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I don’t think I do have a soul.

What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.

If I could live my life all over I’d do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there’s no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show

I’m thankful for every moment.

I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.

Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.

I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.

And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.

I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.

A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.

And that’s before anyone starts breaking the rules.

If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you.

I’ve never made a video where I didn’t talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment.

It’s going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before