I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

This city is yawning before me, but I'm not tired.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.