I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Never lose your temper.

You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.

You don't know it, but I'm a vertical megabrand with cross-media platforms

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.