Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

No, there’s something about the sing-song cadence of children’s music that has its place in rock.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

What’s so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they’re being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The brain is wider than the sky.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.