Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

Money is the seal and stamp of success.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.