The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don't try to be funny, but am relieved when an opportunity comes up for humor.
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.