I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

We're still on the run. That's for sure. Right on. This time we're on. And we won't stop till we win.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.