Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

Hey, Carlos, " the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?""It sucked.""Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks."It really sucked, " I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

I remember as a kid being cold a lot, and hungry sometimes. Wed go to bed with just cornbread and milk, and I remember wearing shoes with holes in the bottom. I remember having twine for shoestrings.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

The only thing that's changed for me is that I've figured out a new way to do this; when I go to record, I like to do the drums last, if that makes any sense to you.