The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

If your level of anger or bitterness is not leading to a change in your life or relationship, it is because your ego is dominating.

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

Music is a form of prayer.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.