My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!