A man destined to hang can never drown

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

You are not who you think you are.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

My background is Scottish.

One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East