I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

We always did our own mixing.

Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously.