音乐是世界的语言，没有国界。

塑料的真正成本不在于生产，而在于它的后续处理。

写作的行为是一种记忆的行为。

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

那些自认为被上天选中的人们不喜欢谈及痛苦的取舍抉择。他们喜欢谈论幸福感满满的解决方案，从而可以根除整个的问题，至少在他们的想象里。

We just try to make music that we love and that we would want to listen to.

如果你需要一只援助之手，你可以在自己的任何一只手臂下找到;随着年龄的增长，你会发现你有两只手，一只用来帮助自己，另一只用来帮助别人。

We are all of us made by what we have lost as much as by what we have gained.