I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

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.

You trivialize time when you don’t know what to do with it.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

As you talk, so is your heart.