Emotionally, there is something more appealing about not having to wake up and put something on, but you are trading a non-life-threatening condition, for a life-threatening condition.

Most insurers are going to pick the most cost-effective option. Most likely [face transplants] are going to only be an option to those who are paying cash. But that applies to all of medicine. Who can get a cochlear implant? Does it come down to if they can pay for it?

This isn't like a heart transplant. There is no urgency, and you can sit back and take six months to a year to determine if this is a good candidate.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten.