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

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.

But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.

Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

I believe Jean-Marie Le Pen is a man of his word, and he will not go back on his words.

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

Keep seeing the glass half full and it will dawn upon you that its probably your turn to buy.