I don't have an iPod.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

I don't have an iPod.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

I feel really different from other musicians.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is rooted willing to lean and at peace with what is around it.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Everyone is like a butterfly they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.

Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

Damascus is the center of world terror. All these organizations, Jihad and Hamas, their headquarters are in Damascus. Syria supports Hezbollah.