If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

Life and death is like music. Life is the note. Death is the silence. Play your note well.

You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

And my head told my heart"Let love grow"But my heart told my head"This time noThis time no

...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.

I want to write a song based on my own childbirth. Of course, this is all a bit premature.

Jealousy, turning saints into the seaSwimming through sick lullabiesChoking on your alibis

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time.

Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening.