The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

We always did our own mixing.

With true beauty, there is no illusion.

If you know it... ... as conclusion there isn't a reason to continue... No mysteries no reasons. Life with it's own reasons!

Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don’t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.