I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

لا شئ يجعل الإنسان مستعد للموت .. مثل العمر الطويل

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.