"Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you."

"I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts."

"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

"My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status."

"I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films."