The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

When you win a Premier League title it still feels a bit surreal after a couple of weeks.

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

Cloyne's revelations are heart-breaking.

I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.

I hate football.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

I'm not this horrible, evil person.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Sometimes it feels like just yesterday that my ex and my baby boys were snuggling on the couch with me in our gorgeous Calabasas home. Other times, it feels like it was all a crazy dream.

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

We Finns don't show much emotion but it doesn't mean we don't have any.

The World Cup has special games, and losing them hurts more than the other ones.

It feels too simple that I've made music that I really care about, that I'm proud of, and it's connected with people. To me, there has to be some underlying dark force that's fabricating this.

New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself.

It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or...

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

Touring gets really lonely.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

I love San Jose.

There's definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don't know where it came from. I've had it all my life. My mom was always like, 'You're going to end up in jail with that temper!'

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create misunderstandings and I hate that.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave of Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

I've always had a bit of a temper.

I have the biggest sweet tooth! You name it, I will eat it. My all-time favorite is my mother's butter cake. Every time I go home, my mom will already have the cake made because I love it so much....