The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.
I go along, play football, work as hard as I can, play as hard as I can, and then go home and spend time with my wife and kids.
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.
The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'