You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

True Dragons are among the Universe's most perfect beings. This is a useful bit of information. Squirrel it away like a nugget of Fafnir's gold

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

Humanity is the Son of God.

Thus I steer my bark and sail On even keel with gentle gale.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Peter Norman's a man's man.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.