When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Provided there is a church which proclaims the mutual humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, evil will never be able to bring it to the point of attrition.

Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.

If you wished to be loved, love.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.