Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You fight on the roof, and you fight all the way down again.

If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.