I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

I try not to do anything by formula.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Im trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.