I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.