There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

Be gentle, always delicatewith every soulyou meet, for every single morningyou wake up, there is someoneWishing, silentlyand secretly, that theyhad not.

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.