Be yourselves, be spunky, be spontaneous. Low-maintenance is always the biggest plus in the world.

I think it's always really important for people to feel like they can connect with you.

The mystery of the artist is something that the 70's made, but it's not the same these days, and I don't know... to me, I feel like letting your fans know about you is awesome.

I've never really been too scared to do anything.

Let it go to have it forever.

Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.