If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Whether this blood was daemon, human, or something else, it was still only blood, and blood was only the ink of life.

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.

The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.