I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.

Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

No good opera plot can be sensible:people do not sing when they are feeling sensible

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

I know I said my heart beats for you.I was lying girl. I've been lying to you...

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

I think the most important thing about screaming in our music is the urgency of it.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

As if music were a separate thing you could drive yourself into, make love to, fuck.

I am a music snob, and proud of it. I'm a New Yorker; smugness is my birthright.

ecause some thingssometimesaren't ours to hold,but just beautiful to listen to.