When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?""Ask a glass of water!

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.