"I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math."

“At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.”

“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”

“I was more than just a moody artist.”

“You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.”

“A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.”

“I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident”

“For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.”

Source : Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.”