Ring the bells that still can ring.

I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.