Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

They scream, they cry, they love, they support, they defend, they listen. My fans are everything.

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

Eighty percent of love is smell.