Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.

Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.