When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.

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.

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

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?