When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world, " wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

The secret is to just keep moving.

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.