There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties.

How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.

Law and justice are not the same.

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am.

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.