Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the step action to conquer it.

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

They ought to create a new league for that guy.

It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.