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

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Relationships break down, because it's about self. But when you take the "I" out of it and you're like, how can I make them happy, that means sacrifice. I think you have to be prepared to sacrifice, and a lot of people just aren't willing to. You have to give up a piece of yourself. By doing that, you get a greater sense of who you are. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

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

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.