The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.

One of the amazing things about pop is that it's there to make people feel confident and empowered.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Because women never say what they think.

Life is you master, or death is.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

God is bigger than people think.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.

Authority is quite degrading.

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.