I am LONGING to SEE LIBYA rejoin the WORLD as the internationalist Mediterranean COUNTRY that it was.

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a ROUTINE to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that READING Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me CLOSER to some kind of ABSOLUTE that I could hold up as a torch to LIGHT my way.

All I can SAY is sometimes HOME gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't LEAVE you, and there's always that LONGING.

I REALIZED that even though I had this URGE, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I NEEDED to be in there SOMEHOW.

The LONGING we have to COMMUNICATE cleanly and directly with PEOPLE is always obstructed by qualifications and OFTEN with CONCERN about how our messages will be received.

I'm one of these guys who ALWAYS feel LIKE the OUTSIDER, you KNOW? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

I've never really had ANYBODY CLOSE to me die. I think the song is about a FEELING that I have that, it STILL applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

You can lose people WITHOUT them DYING, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The EMOTION is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about LONGING for SOMEBODY who's disappeared in your life.

In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that SHOW. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the PERIPHERAL of a LOT of it.

I'm so fascinated by the human LONGING for meaning. The WAY we relate romantically to each other is so MUCH to do with our longing for meaning as well.

I'd definitely LOVE to do more ACTING. My HEART cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.