The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate