memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

Let the other person save face.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.