I like visual imagery in my head.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!

Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

I collect cigars. I love giving 'em away to people that really enjoy 'em, and I could think of no better place than West Point!

Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.