I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this.

You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

Never quit. Never give up.

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.