In every set of circumstances, we get to create our own experience.

We don't experience the world. We experience our thoughts and think that's the world.

Never be challenged by the number of people you have but by the impact the number of people can make.

My mother was always supportive.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.