People love fact-based songs, which is a very funny idea.

Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.

Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.

There's so many simple things that can be done to change our carbon footprint, and to reduce our carbon footprint.

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.

True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.