Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.

So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

This vision is within our grasp.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

I really chase the things that I want.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.