When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

You create your own reality. There is no other rule.