I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Yeah you can have a word, " said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.

Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.

I can't imagine a life without a story.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.