After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life and eternal death.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.