I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.

You can’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you'll get it.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She was who she was - she'd been born this way, Why should she have to change who she was to satisfy someone else?

How cinematic of an entrance that was.

Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.