Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Man thalabal ‘ula sahiral layali.” He who wants glory will work late into the night. -184

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?