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" I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. "

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" We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. "

" I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. "

" When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. "

" Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year? "

" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "

" At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it. "

" For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. "

" Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars. "

" Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. "

" We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it. "

" The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so. "

" Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. "

" Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. "

" I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. "

" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "

" I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. "

" I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it. "

" I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.' "

" I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. "

" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "

" Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. "

" The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully. "

" Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold. "

" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "

" As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year. "

" Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. "

" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "

" Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. "

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors. "