Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.
I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like. . . only a freak. A freak among other freaks
I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.
Everything means nothing to me
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.
I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words
There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.
I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.