Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Never be cruel to anyone

Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.