So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.