When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing.

We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.

My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think it's amazing, how the hell is anyone else going to think it's amazing? But that's just me.

My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.