I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.