"Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future."

“What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.”

“It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it”

Source : "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

“The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.”

“I was in college - Carnegie Mellon, which is one of the reasons Pittsburgh was appealing to me - and I personally feel that whole world of what we used to call "college radio" is a big part of what kept me sane through a period where I stopped dating, I felt like a freak, I felt like no girl would like me. You know, a very adolescent response to losing my hair. I turned to obsessing about The Replacements and The Smiths and R.E.M. and getting further into The Velvet Underground. People who, in my sheltered suburban life, I knew of, but didn't know fully.”

“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

“External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”

“That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don't ask dumb questions.”