
“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47
Source: Nights in Rodanthe
“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
On his relations with David Bowie
Rolling Stone interview (2003)
Context: I used to catch myself — maybe we'd be having dinner with the future king of Spain, and I'd be grumpy, like, "What are we doing here, hanging out with these swells?" And then, right away, I'd realize, "Dude, you're jealous." It got very hard on a certain level. He was a person of affairs, in the worldly sense, with a lot of choices laid out on his smorgasbord. I had no choices whatsoever. I was a pariah. But a very fortunate one, in that he saw something worthwhile in me, and he made me two terrific records. He gave me the break I needed to continue living life. He is my benefactor.
"Clair" (song)
(+ Live performance in Japan, 1993. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpdBX-u1dv8
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Clair" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmeZaAry830 (song on YouTube.))