In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Words, he knew, could scar.

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.

He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

I killed you. And you. And you.

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.