I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.

All of our heartfelt lies Are not enough this time

I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.

Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.

Equip yourself for your own needs.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as...well, angels and demons would once have seemed to her. Not anymore.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.