Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Things always become obvious after the fact

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Your true friends are those who evaluate you by who you are as a person, and not by what you have or don't have.

The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.