To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.
I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.
Let go of yesterday, you made it! Don't use yesterday's state of mind to make today's decisions.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
where love n happiness makes us blind, pain n hurt helps to see truth. So, pain in good.
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
Self confidence. Let's fight the demon that make us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it.
Self confidence. Let's fight the demons that makes us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it.
We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Great relationships are like vitamins to the soul. They help us connect, laugh, dream and grow. Make time for friendship and fellowship.
All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.
Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
