From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.