“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.”

“Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?”

“Most things in my life are anything but simple--but loving you is. I just do.”

“I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.”

“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.”

“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”

“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.”