"Art is not a thing; it is..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.”

“As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.”

“Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.”

“Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.”

“I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.”

“The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.”

“I don't think culture is something you can describe.”

“If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?”

“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”