We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it.'

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

在快速变化的市场中，灵活性是成功的关键。

不幸福的主要原因从来都不是你身处的状况，而是你对此的想法。

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any society, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.

我写歌是为了记住，也是为了忘记。

等待某件事的想法让它变得更加令人兴奋。