I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

We started the season off really hot, then we had some ups and downs. You can't have a season where it's perfect. It's what you want but in reality it's not going to happen all the time.

God has put people in your life on purpose, Don't live to get, live to give.

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.