What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

I never thought a little time and space would turn into miles and worlds apart

Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?

I don't know if I would refer to myself as a local celebrity.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.

You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.