Why write stories? To join the conversation..

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories..

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories..

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story..

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disea….

Do what you're afraid to do..

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual..

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart..

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story..

Knowledge isn’t love.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image..

I know I'm not great at structure and story..

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story..

We don't choose what's going to wake us up..

Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other..

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power.

Forgiveness frees the forgiver..

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure..

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully consci….

I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that ca….

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story..