Perfectionist? Thats not something I am.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.

Sometimes adversity becomes the fuel in which we run on.

The ability of extension lies in responsibility

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.