I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up.

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.

Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves.

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.