Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.