Jeff Buckley

“I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.”

“I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.”

“I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.”

“There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.”

“Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.”

“'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.”

“A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.”

“I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.”

“I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.”

“The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.”

“The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.”