Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it.

As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.