My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

One of the ways to get the information or knowledge to is by reading!

Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.

Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

We waltzed Lisztlessly.

Wake me up Wake me up, you said But I was sleeping, too I was dreaming But now I"m waking up Still waking up I can see the sun

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.