“There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?”

“Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.”

“I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.”

“There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.”

“I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves”

“love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.”

“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...”