I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

Some people never need to let up at all.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.

Vow not to be like those who tend to allow their difficulties to distract them from the enormous rewards ahead.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

I'm not sure Messi is a human.

Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.