may my touchalways...be tenderas i would strokemother's cheekswhen she cried.

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.

there are some poemsthat we leave behindsome that leave us behindwhile some just livesilentlyin the heartcrumble, sometimesdwindledisappeardieand are rebornwhen you smile again.

it was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too, have been bruised...by beauty.

because some thingssometimesaren't ours to hold, but just beautiful to listen to.

i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun.

and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need.

there is some achingthat will only heal...in the mosque of sleep.

i want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated....foreverin my mother’s arms.

leave me some musicthat’s chocolate for the heart.

History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.

To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.