Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

I mean, [Donald Trump] is going to get hit. He's going to get hit often. He's not going to like it. That's the way it works, you know.