I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

True success cannot be achieved until you have experienced failure

The Veil of Consciousness is a thin sheath thatI wear to view the transparency of the life thatSurrounds me.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.

Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.