Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

Why is it… that temptations of the world seem to be stronger than romance? Is it because of biological imperative of reproduction

So, you don’t have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?Here’s the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.

Be wise enough, know when to move on.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.