I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.
i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.
It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.
Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?
My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in recordalbum form for years to come, but now records aren't what they were then - and so it doesn't actually feel very good to make a record of songs.
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!
Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.