Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Observe how endings become beginnings.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.