I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Every traveler should make their own observation.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned.