Jackson Browne Quotes

I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.

Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss.

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.

I lost both my parents, and it wasn't as hard as losing Paul, because you've got your whole life with them - you know it's going to happen. With Paul being my best friend, I just didn't see it coming.

The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met Jeremy Bussey, who I wrote the song with.

I write a lot of sad songs!

I love writing sad songs.

My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

You could never in a million years have told me Prince would not be here today.