It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.

Don’t think I’m going off to find myself though. I already know who I am.

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.