The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.