And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul.

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

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.