Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours.
I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.
Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.
The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.
It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.
I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.
Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
