Without music, life would be a mistake.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
What’s meant to be will always find a way.
People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.
Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Where’s your will to be weird?
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.