Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

Awards are not the only markers of success I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

Love is just a shout in the void.

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.