I guess if we do enough shows and keep doing it long enough, then people will get the picture. But I can't really be bothered if they don't get the picture. That's not my concern.

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.

My problem was never with the major label, it was with the guy who we put our trust in and then wouldn't take my phone calls once we'd signed to a major label, who then quit.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while.

If you train 100% the result will be 100%.

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.