I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.