“… where there is no more hope, song remains.”

“I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.”

“This is where they come into their own, for there's money in hope: the more desperate the hope, the richer the pickings.”

“‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.”

“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”

“Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.”

“Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.”

“The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.”

“A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”