The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up.
I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.
I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.
Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.
Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.
I see a lot of people of color in my fanbase and at all my shows, and it's really awesome.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.