“People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”

“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”

“To burn oil!.. You can fuel with money as well.”

“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”

“I think maybe I was born to be a songwriter. It's quite a comfort. I wrote most of my songs to stay alive, the rest to get back in the house.”

“We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man.
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand.
We got department stores
And toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
For the ozone layer.
Got a man of the people,
Says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
Got roads to drive.”

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”

“To control global warming, only one solution: stop burning fossil fuels.”

“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.”