When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.