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.

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

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.

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Loved life is full of suspence, adventures where excitement dance

Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

There is no thermometer for wants!

Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.

It is not always wise to appear singular.