I decided to pursue music so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy people for whom everything works out.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

We are told to let our light shine and if it does we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

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