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

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.

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.

Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.

Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.

I want to find things that challenge me.

People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past.