It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

What was stolen must be returned

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

I love being in the studio.

Only the dead do not need wisdom

Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get...

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months.

It's never boring in makeup.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.