The world that has made us can no longer contain us

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.