“All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.”

I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.

Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’

Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.

You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.

The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

You know, I don’t want to stand out too much.

I don’t know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don’t know.

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.