Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

Night heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night.

Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

Just do a thing and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.