I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little.

[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.

You are not your mind. You don’t have to believe the lies it tells you about yourself.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

I'm a really emotional person so I cry for everything.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.