I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

I joined a band to hit things.

I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

double mindedness

May you know the path of light.

No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.