I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

The important thing in life is having a passion, something you really love doing, and you take joy in the fact that you get to wake up every day and do it.

What are you creating?

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.