I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds.

If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

I have great faith in the jury system.

Beware of the person of one book.