When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

We work super hard to not have to work

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

My favorite jacket is an emergency item. Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.

In Cancún, I felt like I had walked into an American teen movie.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

I took my weight training to a new level.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.