Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

She looked terrible, but very wise.

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

I want to be a simple bride when I get married. I want a beach wedding where I am running around on the sand in a white dress.

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.