If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.