As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

We hastily call someone a friend.

Get a grip, get a clue, get a move on

Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

I'm not somebody who believes in evil.

I'm touring and I'm bored and it's an off day or I'm travelling and boom, there ya go, it's fun again cause I'm drunk.

You can't let any team awe you.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.