We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.