I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.