The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.