I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.

Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

Being off the road is one of the greatest things ever. It's hard for me to be around my friends who are on the road.

I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.