You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

You're always you, with your own insecurities.

I am a little bit of everything that I´ve ever read or said.

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.