“It’s pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.”

If you don’t try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you’re just wasting your position as a pop band.

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say ‘thank you’ for an honour like the Nobel Prize.

I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.

So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.

People will ask me, “How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?” My answer is always: I don’t change anything about the story itself.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.