The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.

The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?