Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

It ain't what you do it's how you do it.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.