I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back.

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.

Trying is always enough.

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

I didn't alter the footballs in any way