Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was I could not remain ignorant of their import.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

For all sad words of tongue and pen The saddest are these 'It might have been'.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do and how you twist it.

When I start to write words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

No but I've always felt that with true talent and a commitment to hard work it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words I don't take my fans for granted.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect because it's every day anyway no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems or sometimes not.

I don't think socialism and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

Religion and philosophy philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Personally I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know my higher self. The Creator.

But even in the Christian religion much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

But in Japanese there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview in other words a view of the world based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

In the grip of a neurological disorder I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Words without power is mere philosophy.

Also as I lay there thinking of my vision I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning it would be like fog and get away from me.

Kind words are a creative force a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Words derive their power from the original word.

A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.