Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.