It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

Some things were made to be felt

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

They don't make coats for this kind of cold

Bad nights lead to better days

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Is it possible to love someone too much? You bet.

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

Let us fill our lives with endless spring. Let us bloom with joy

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

It's okay to rest. Jesus fights when you cannot.

Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.