Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?

Quitting on one's dreams isn't a way out, because all it does is to bring forth some sufferings and quilts in one's life.

Channel your energy. Focus.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.

You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.