We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

[Hillary] Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before.

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

Nothing about me surprises me.

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.