I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back.

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Being afraid wouldn't find justice for the family---this boy seemed to understand that.

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.