There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

I joined a band to hit things.

I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

I hate feet, they're disgusting... what are they even for?

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.