Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.