I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

Let thy sacred heart be thy holy home.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

Every thought is an afterthought.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.