"Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled...." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.”

“The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.”

“At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.”

“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”

“You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.”

“I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.”

“There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.”

“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”

“Poetry gave me back my voice.”