People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

Grace meant God knew her past and still offered her a beautiful future. An unbreakable happy ending.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.

Of all the ages of civilization, this is the most favorable for the development of the imagination, because it is an age of rapid change.