Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.