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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in Praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't.

I yearned for everything long gone.

The problem with parents is that they're adults.

Play Quidditch at all?”“No, ” Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch cou

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.