It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

I’m not anything that you think I am.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.

Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance — toward yourself!

The angels can sometimes come as wordless words as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again...

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.