I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

There has to be some mystery in life, because the joy of being a writer and the joy of being a musician is the joy of discovery. I don't want someone discovering for me what I should be discovering on my own. If a person is discovering for me, then they're living for me. It's my responsibility, indeed it's my privilege, to go out and discover the world for myself.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.