I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

I am not in it for the success, I am in it for the victory...nothing less.

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.