I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

You have to let go of what is holding you back.

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

I will not walk backward in life.

Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.