We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.