Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

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.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

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