I'm sorry, " I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.

I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, ‘He doesn’t love you. I love you.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

I don't feel any sense of competition at all, and that might be my naïveté, but I don't feel pitted against anyone at all.

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.