All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.
To sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush...I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You now what, I'm a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough...Somebody shoot me in the face.
In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.
She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.
Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
