I write songs because I'm fucked up in the head and need to get stuff out.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

这个世界惟有两样东西让我们的心灵感到深深的震撼，一是我们头顶上灿烂的星空，一是我们内心崇高的道德法则。

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.