If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

I’m not anything that you think I am.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

May the good God pardon all good men.

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.