It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.

If someone loves sweet things and constantly eats angel´s hair tartlets should this be diagnosed as having some sort of heavenly trichotillomania?

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.