I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night.

Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad.

Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Instead of taking full advantage of having eight women at once, I spent all my time trying to find a real girlfriend.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.