My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think it's amazing, how the hell is anyone else going to think it's amazing? But that's just me.

Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing.

We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.

When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Okay... That's still blind-making.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.