There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Working with Love and Death on 'Let Me Love You' was sort of a supernatural experience. I was mourning the loss of a loved one when I recorded the song.

Grief makes one hour ten.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.