When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.

What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.