I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Dancing dismiss distress.

Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.