The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

Love, love will be my strongest weapon

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.

There is every board minded man behind the success of woman. But when that man is in legal relation then a woman can triumph among men

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

It's easy to set up binaries of who's good and who's bad, who is right and who is wrong. But I really don't think that way. I believe that people can change and grow.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.