I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!

In the haste to imitate an idol, in the race to become someone else, we forget the most important lesson.How to be ourselves.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required