But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].