Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.
I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
Forgive them even if they are not sorry
I over-think stuff a lot.
Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.
No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.
I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
Just slow it down enough to enjoy the ride.
Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.
