The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

The truth stinks. Thus it's covered.

In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.

Give an inch he'll take an ell.

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.