I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate or just never come back I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much and so I just went.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work I'll leave that for others to decide.

When I sing I have a sense of peace I feel like my brain turns off and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

When I leave here when my final day on this earth is up I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Reason is a supple nymph and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Love thou the rose yet leave it on its stem.

Forests lakes and rivers clouds and winds stars and flowers stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!

Also because people like to multitask in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise but leave your brain free to do something else.

Music's been around a long time and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record that's the frosting on the cake but music's the main meal.

If music leaves any impression at all it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting existing as material in space not immaterial in time.