I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

The value system of a country comes from the pulpit.

I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he’s hungry

If I have to, I can do anything.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women