I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.

I am a man, not a movement, ” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.

Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?

...something more than the sum of its parts-

We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.

Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.

If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.

I'm not letting the world - or anyone in it - determine my fate. Not anymore, at least. - Ginny

The reason for our limitation is only inside us.

there is no pain in leaving as in being left behind

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on my mind: 'I've got to make another record now.' And I was totally excited.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.