Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I’m a serious aficionada of country music – Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I’ve even written some songs. They haven’t done anything of mine yet. But it’s only a matter of time.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.