But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Being real is what is important.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.