I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

I'm not so much of a joiner.

I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I like when people take chances.

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

I think more people need to make out.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations but the history of the world void of national bias race hate and religious prejudice.

Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!

We dont make movies to make money we make money to make more movies.

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.

After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.

The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures.

I'm fascinated by simple joy.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

I've realized that I can do performances.