There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.