“Unless you call attentionto your presencewho will know you're there?Even a countryhas to weave and wave a flagas proof of its existence.”

“The journey back is always longer than the forward run.”

“I have fallen in love with the worldAnd I am aware that I have chosenthe most dangerous lover of them all.”

“I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello,I thought Id speak it just the same.”

“No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ra...”

“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”

“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.”