You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time.

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.