If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Nothing ever happened except God.

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

She needed this. For the comfort, for the love, for all the glorious things she did not deserve and yet could not stop herself from wanting.

What can I say? Death is messy. And she had it coming.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

You might be a redneck if you hammer bottle caps into the frame of your front door to make it look nice.

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp

The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.