A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

I want you and it will be so, While I have life.

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.