"I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps"

"I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert."

"Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care."

"The older you get, the more it means."

"A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be."

"If people are sick and hurting and lost, I guess it falls on everybody to address those problems in some fashion. Because injustice, and the price of that injustice, falls on everyone's heads."

"Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down."

"The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe."

"Sherrif when the man pulls that switch, Sir And snaps my poor head back, You make sure my pretty baby Is sittin' right there on my lap."

"Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession."

"One day we'll look back on this, and it will all seem funny"

"Show a little faith, there's magic in the night."

"Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land."

"The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence."

"Cause down the shore everything's all right"

"I'll love you with all the madness in my soul."

"Is there anybody alive out there?"

"You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people."

"They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!"

"The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be..."

"You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."

"More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great."

"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."

"If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder."