"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

"'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing."

"When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation."

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."