There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

Smile, the worst is yet to come.

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

Everybody's able to pour into each other creatively, and pop into the studio and pop out. It feels like a community. As an artistic community I think it's really cool.

Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.

Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.

Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.