Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.