Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'

One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.

Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you"

The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.