When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

When a man stops to ponder his physical or moral condition, he generally finds he is ill.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fo…

What one knows, one sees.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

After these conversations with Tagore some of the ideas that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me.