Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

Writing which flows is more like play than work!

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service.

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.

And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.