Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.