I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

We always did our own mixing.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.

If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

I only see what I want to see. Winners see winning, Losers see losing. You are what you think you are.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.