I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

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.

Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.

Do not waste your life waiting for wings. Trust that you can already fly.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.