I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."

It's amazing what people do for love, but the most astonishing fact is how love transforms people...

Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.