I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

I think the consistency comes from the parts.

I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

I'll be here tomorrowIf I can make it through today.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

We don't use guns because we don't have guns

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.