I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?

A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

Only you can answer my cries, I’ve been waiting for the angels to knock on my door, I’ve been hopin' that everything could be like before

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.