This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens.

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.

My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.