I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

You can't chop down a symmetry

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.

The universe is God's son.

O Luke, I would not lose thee as I lostDarth Vader. His betrayal made my lifeA bleak and tragic thing. Thy loss untoThe dark would make my death a hellish, coldEternity.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength it just gives loneliness.

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

I have a life outside the arenas.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

I think in this day and age it's very important.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.