I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

It's hard listening to myself.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Jack the only trick I ever played on you was never tricking you at all.

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.

The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it feels entirely alien to the listener; yet, the content and the subject matter is so Indian and relatable, it's still chutney.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

Negotiating a deal can only take place when there are two parties. If you wait too long, the other party may already have negotiated a deal with someone else.

Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and said, 'There is the limit'.

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?

If you insist on keeping hell or even earth you will never see heaven. If you accept heaven you will not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

A babys cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.