We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

Music is about your feelings.

We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.

When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.

The shows are the main way our lives have changed.

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

If whatever belief you are holding on to isn't driving you forward in life, then it's time to let it go and let the opposite take charge.

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I've lost a lot of jobs because I was too pretty. And everybody's like "Oh, poor you." But seriously, you don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.