I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

Only through struggle, have I found rest.

Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

Letting go is hard, but always worth your efforts.

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.

I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.