You have to like yourself before you can do anything!

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn’t own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

All creatures are great and small.