I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Those benefiting from the status quo, resist change.

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.