A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

We always did our own mixing.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal