I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

tell meof something fiercer than the love with which i gaze upon youof something softer than the tendernesswith which i hold you.

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.

One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.