Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.