The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

I do not insist, " answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.

Practice is personal; no two people's experiences are alike.