I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

She gives the night its dreams.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Nobody knows what is life and still alive

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

And through our travels we get separated, never forget: In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.