I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

your gonna meet new people, but be careful most of them are 2 faced. But remember the most important people is God and family aren't 2 faced so look up to the ones that are important in your life.

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.