I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

Perfectionist? Thats not something I am.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis.

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.