First of all I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

I heard Nirvana and discovered that songs could be like poetry but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a metaphoric connection as any poetry does.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement and Freud and Jung and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man but such beings are seldom met with.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them he opens the way for his successors.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where man is never lonely for he feels life stirring on all sides.

You can never stop discovering music.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

When I was a teenager I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

I like having my hair and face done but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.