My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. That's kind of where it's gonna be.

You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can capture so much more on a record than just a particular performance on one day.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feelings are very hard to express by words.

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

As a child I would just question things.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.