The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.

Don't work out, work in.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.