The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Removing his helmet, Edward knelt by the stream called Swillgate, a name that effectively quenched any desire to drink from its depths.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.