I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

If you love somebody, tell them.

You don't turn your back on family, even when they do.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?

After I went to college, I realized that no matter how much I loved sports, I was ready to have fun, and that was right when I started to sing.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

I think everybody should be "pro-love."

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.