I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

An emotional debt is hard to square.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

Seen too much, it's so hard for me to let new people in

Don't try to be someone else. Be yourself.

Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.