Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.

Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath and start again

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

SHINee are 'transformers' because we are constantly changing!

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?