No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.We define it as interplanomics.

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in the world, and that is peace and comfort.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.