I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Paper tigers quake with fear when a real tiger enters the room.

I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

Having it all is easy if youre willing to work for it

If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.