You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can capture so much more on a record than just a particular performance on one day.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. That's kind of where it's gonna be.

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

You don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

We tend to forget that everything has an ending, so enjoy it while you can still see it around you.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Life is nothing but an empty space filled with memories from beginning to end.

I didn't want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.