I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

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.

Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.

Experience is an author’s most valuable asset

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.