It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.

There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.