Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?" "Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.