As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

If you love music, than you can play music.

A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole fromyou. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make youforget.

May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . .

I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.