You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon!Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.