Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

Be still and know you are loved –Feel the arms of the universeRocking you to its steady hum.

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

Honesty is the foundation for trust; you can't have one without the other.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

Tiramisu is my favourite.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

What is well planted will not be uprooted.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.