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.

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

coincidence is not just only a road to facts but also a call to ponder

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.