I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.