To conform is to lose your soul

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!

Music is your own experience your thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Every last word is contagious.

You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.