People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

Only the ones who believe ever see what they dream, ever dream what comes true.

I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

You may think I am falling, ... I’ m stronger than I have ever been

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

Most politicians are not authentic.