She's not like other girls because she's different. I want her kind of different.

I don't know what the hell is going on with me and this girl, but every single time I'm around her, it's like I lose my shit.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?

I don't look like a model; I'm a rock writer.

I'm the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?

I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins