What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many read more

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as read more

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.'

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends read more

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.