I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

God is the truth.

Are there any leading men in your life?""Several, but they're all fictional.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.