Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.