I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

The structure of the universe is a computational geometry that is fractal in nature.

The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

No gimmicks, only agape.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.