You have to take what you can get out of the music. It's different for everyone, but you have to pay attention and appreciate each piece in order for it to speak to you.

Songwriting was their way to converse with the universe.

I don't want to wake up and find out it was all a dream.

It will be a lesson in hope.

To me, guitar notes are the most beautiful sounds in the world.

Life is either the same song you sing day in and day out, or you go out into the world and devise your own soundtrack.

I radiated with all the stars in the night sky and the courage of a thousand men ran through my veins.

Soon it will all be a memory and memories decay and deform over time.

I had no idea what the lyrics were in the song, but his voice wrapped around my head, weaving through my hair, and whispered into my ears that made me drunk with a feeling I never felt before.

I hated goodbyes. It felt like I had to give so many of them away lately.

Maybe one day we'd become fiction.

Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.

A finished person is a boring person.

Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.

I don't care if I'm cool or not. I've always been an awkward person anyway.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

I think if everyone is clean, then who cares about how you're tested?

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.