I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

But I have always been ready to serve my country.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.