I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards..., " Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories!

Never do things that you will regret later.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.