"I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first."

“There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.”

“Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.”

“How many fluids should you take in daily?  That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.  If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.”

“My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.”

“never trust a Troglotroll”

Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.358, The Overlook Press

“Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.”

Source : "David Moyes defends brinkmanship but admits Leighton Baines deal is dead" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2013.

“When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.”

“It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”