The phrasing didn't work as well.

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.

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

XML is a giant step in no direction at all.

Nothing is ours really, not even our own souls!

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.