Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha.

Every role that you don't get burns you for a while.

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.