You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

It’s time for a spring cleaning of your thoughts, it’s time to stop to just existing it’s time to start living.

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.

When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

You're either coaching it or allowing it to happen.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.