The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.

Don't follow the crowd until you are sure you want to be where they're going.

Fat gives things flavor.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.

I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden

I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.