There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.