The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.