This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.

It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

This state of independence shall be!

I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much...

I do have a religion

I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

Its a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.