Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff to deal with. Like sitting at the computer and sending emails.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.

I feel like everybody knows the world isn't the happiest, most peaceful place. And though everybody has an idea of what's wrong, we're not changing it for the better.

I have an aversion to conformity.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

I'm very into Taylor Swift. From her music to her wardrobe, she is absolutely killing it. Also, she has adorable cats that I would love to pet.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself?