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.

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.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.

I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature.

Some pushers are way better than others.

I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

There are no atheist in foxholes.