The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

Don't decide yet, " Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

I'm one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym.