I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

The sacred souls are saved by grace.

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

I stand by every mistake I've ever made, so judge away.

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.