I'm very moralistic, and I don't believe in anything. I see that this is the only life I have to live, and there's no afterlife, so I have to live it the best I can.

Straight edge is depending on yourself and no one else. Religion should be relying on yourself and not relying on other people to tell you how to do things.

I basically followed those three principles anyway.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

Wherein the graver had a strife / With Nature to out-do the life.

Stick a fork in me, I'm DONE!