There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

A weak mind complains about everything and loves nothing. A strong mind complains about nothing and loves everything.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

Material things aren't important to me.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.