168 quotes found
“Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, '...”
“If you feel so emptySo used up, so let downIf you feel so angrySo ripped off so stepped onYou're not the only oneRefusing to back downYou're not the only oneSo get up”
“Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cry?”
“So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.”
“I will never let you fallI'll stand up with you foreverI'll be there for you through it allEven if saving you sends me to heaven”
“Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.”
“It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die”
“It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.”
“Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience...”
“You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin”
“I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.I touch no one and no one touches me.I am a rock,I am an island.”
“And my head told my heart"Let love grow"But my heart told my head"This time noThis time no”
“I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.”
“My mind is killing me The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind”
“It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.”
“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet picked up from the stereo or the TV. 'What does that mean, then?' my...”
“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed”
“You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.”
“There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
“If tears were liquor, I'd have drunk myself sick.”
