For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

Have you ever took a blade to your wrists?Have you been skipping meals?We're gonna try something new todayHow does that make you feel?

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

I wish that you knew you could never make it without love for your goddamned self, and that you'll never ever find it in anybody else.

Say what you want about fairies, but you haven't rocked out until you've heard Smoke on the Water played on a harpsichord. ~Harlow

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

I vacuumed my piano, hoping to soak up the last of the concertos. I should sell musical sponges, for the lover in the kitchen in all of us.

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

In the end we're all just chalk lines on the concrete Drawn only to be washed away For the time that I've been given I am what I am