Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.

So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

We have multi-generations coming to our show.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Nature is only another chimera.

Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same. Death on her left. Devil on her right.

I have proven a danger to both myself and those around me when carrying these weapons. I'm extraordinarily clumsy.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.