Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.