There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Opportunities are endless when you are ready to find them.

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

If I'm doing something its coming from a kind heart.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.