I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.

Life is a complex matter thrown into the hands of simple people.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Where pride begins, love ceases.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.