Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.