I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Imperfection keeps me trying, and I won't stop even if I do achieve it.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.