No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

The quality of life depends on the power of love.

God gave mankind a divine duty to protect all the animals in the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail

Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

I like the physicality in doing the different physical motions, being a beast.