People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

The more you ride the bike, the better it gets, and the more you know how to ride it.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

We live in a new time and a new place, and people have to begin to be ready for the kind of oversight that the public is demanding.

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.