I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

I am not a sex symbol.

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different but the goal is the same.

Every regulatory speech on derivatives takes a bow to their hedging 'benefits.' Less publicly, regulators pay their respects to derivative profits, a blessed relief from the banks' troubled loans to less-developed countries, highly leveraged companies, and real estate swingers.

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

The walls of Sparta were its young men, and its borders the points of their spears.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

If I ever score against Spurs, I won't celebrate. Even if it's the best goal in the world, I'll keep it subdued. It's a respect thing. The fans were brilliant towards me; I'll be playing against my friends and I can't forget that.

Give even an onion graciously.