Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.

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

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.