I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Addiction is not shameful. It is a disease.

The greatest treasure is the act of being alive.

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

What is working stain, does not soil.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.