London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

I've heard that shampooing your hair everyday is bad for the scalp.