My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to like it. You don't have to listen to it at all. I'm not trying to convince people of things, other than the fact that I'm trying to make as vivid as I can my own feelings and experiences.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.