Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

Unswerving devotion to your goals is success.

Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years