I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.