The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
It's a wonderful life if you can find it.
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.
I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.
The surgical nurses were right. Theo Buchanan was gorgeous. . and sexy as hell. But none of that should matter. She was his physician, nothing more, noting less. . His hair was sticking up and he needed a shave, but he was still sexy. There wasn't anything wrong with her noticing that. . unless, of course, he noticed her noticing.