[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

Perfectionist? Thats not something I am.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

advertising is the price you pay for having unremarkable product or service

In the end, after kingdoms and armies had fallen, the religions were still fighting, weren't they?

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.

You might be a redneck if taking a dip has nothing to do with water.

I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.