I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Your dreams become your destiny when your plans become your actions!

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

There's no blueprint on how to beat me.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.