Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.