I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

The magazine at the health food store said, Stop Aging! Isn't that what death is for? Trust me, we're all gonna stop aging.

The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.