I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

The truth within moves as intimacy of being.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.