I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive