In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

We are the living planet!

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

I owe my allegiance to the working class.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.