The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

We should always respect our teachers, because transforming children into knowledge-oriented young people is a precious and extremely difficult job.

Your failures contain key to your success and your destination

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a place for myself.

It Is possible to live in peace.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]