What was stolen must be returned

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

I love being in the studio.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

An eye for an eye is elemental.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.