You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.