I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.