I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
Rudeness is not having fun, and if it is, it's at the expense of another person.
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?
I don't want to name drop, but Russell Crowe is the most famous person in my phone.
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.
I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.
With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.
I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo... imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways... that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in.
A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
