As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment and the first thing I do

Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie.

All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.

You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two

It takes a society to raise a generation.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

I am about to learn what it's like to live here.

...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment...

There are many dreams in a lifetime – dreams that flourish or flounder for reasons much more complex than can be pinned down to any one person or situation.

I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.