In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

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.

Follow your passion, but never forget your responsibilities.

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

To understand all is to forgive all.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.