What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.
I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.
The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
