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

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.

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.

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

He's one of the greatest players in the world, if not one of the greatest anywhere.

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.