Sometimes you definitely need to just let go. You need to sort of forget everything.

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

I'm already 30! It doesn't really feel like a landmark. When I started out, my aim was to keep making records. Just because I've reached the 10th doesn't mean I'm going to rest on my laurels now!

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.

We live in a world where words are as meaningless as a snowflake in a blizzard

We are always in the process of becoming. Self-identity is a fusion of our prior decisions and our current thoughts.

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.

Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.