We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.

I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done.

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we cant thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.

I feel good about my life.

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm; be patient!

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

I'm obsessed with fresh breath.

If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing whats right.

Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

Never follow someone elses path unless youre in the woods and youre lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

You have to keep surprising your audience.