“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.”
英语
“孩子们像展示奖章一样展示伤疤。恋人们把它们当作要揭示的秘密。”
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
英语
“带着昨日的全部，我如何能开始任何新的事物？”
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
英语
“万物皆有裂痕，那是光照进来的地方。”
出自专辑《未来》中的歌曲《颂歌》。
“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.”
英语
“敲响那些还能敲响的钟。忘掉你完美的祭品。”
“One is distracted by this notion that there is such a thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff, to come up with my payload.”
英语
“人们被这种观念所干扰：以为存在所谓的灵感，以为它来得快速而轻松。有些人确实蒙受了那种恩赐。我不是。所以我必须像任何苦工一样卖力，才能交出我的成果。”
“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
英语
“如果你不成为大海，你每天都会晕船。”
“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
英语
“按照你想成为的样子去行动，很快你就会成为你行动的样子。”
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
英语
“诗只是生活的证据。如果你的生活燃烧得好，诗不过是灰烬。”
“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
英语
“我不认为自己是悲观主义者。我觉得悲观主义者是等着下雨的人。而我觉得自己已经浑身湿透。”
“I always felt that I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. Other writers have said the same thing — that the process is not an agreeable one.”
英语
“我总觉得自己在搜刮桶底，试图拼凑出一首歌。其他作者也说过同样的话——创作过程并不愉快。”