Why don't you swallow razor blades?

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.