My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

You never get fed up scoring goals.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

It's just that with football, when you don't get the ball, you can't show your talents and that's always been something in the back of my mind.

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.