When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

This is teamwork; this is what it's all about.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.