I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

I can't believe that she's questioning the existence of magic when she's standing before me dead and talking.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there!

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.