I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of energy from feedback from fans. People create music videos and artwork for my music.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.

I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody feels this way.

Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.

It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says they don't love that is lying.

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Everyone sees the glory moments, but they don't see what happens behind the scenes.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.