I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.

I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

So roar be fearless, and go chase those dreams.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.