"When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them"

“I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.”

Source : "'Idol' winner Lee DeWyze: 'I'm free to do what I want now'". Le DeWyze's Final National Media Conference Call, www.usatoday.com. May 29, 2010.

“I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.”

“I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.”

Source : "The Bittorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 1, 2005.

“Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something”

“No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.”

“I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'”

“One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.”

“There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.”