The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.