Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

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.

Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

Alone. The saddest word in the world.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

What's up with chicks and science?

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.