There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

An unhappy life is a wasted life.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

Nobody can experience everything, so you need to borrowthe experience of others.

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)

If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.