I know this because Tyler knows this.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.