Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

A man cannot fully embrace his future…until he first releases his past

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

I'm the mom and the other members are my children

I've got 11 brothers and sisters.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs