A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.