Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Integrity is a virtue which defines the depth of life.

Love and care can transform the impossible to possible and ugliness into beauty.

The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.

Honestly, I just try to drink lots of water and get a decent amount of sleep!

I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.