Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

I want to manufacture a feud.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.