However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

It's because you're scared that there's danger.But could she manage not to be scared anymore?

So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

Don't hang onto anything too tightly-all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.

Each dog barks in his own yard!