Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

I salute your level of patience if you watch these daily soaps. I cannot kill because there's not enough space for graveyards.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.

A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.