It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.

Before beginning, prepare carefully.

But you don't need to worry. The Lord will never let his mouthpiece lead the people astray.

People don't want to read subtitles.