I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I never played with anything like toys.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I call architecture frozen music.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Imagination decides everything.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.