"Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live."

“The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.”

“I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.”

Source : "THEATER; Over and Over the Same War" by Sylviane Gold, www.nytimes.com. March 25, 2001.

“For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.”

“To be struck twice by two different cyclones is unusual, to say the least,”

Source : "Power out, trees fall as hurricane crosses Bermuda". www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2014.

“I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.”

“Life's too short to spend with important people.”

“Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.”

Source : Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”