It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.