a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.