It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Joseph De Maistre

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Isabel Allende

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

James Taylor

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.

Stephen King

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time???The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden???s eye???The mysterious communication that is established across a hous

Nan Fairbrother

I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.

Bruce Cockburn

For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

Laura Schlessinger

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

Shia LaBeouf