I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

This world needs much more kissing and far less fighting.

Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you, ’ And then treat us that way?

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.

It's like the Fouth of July in my underpants.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.