Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.
The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.
I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.
When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor. '
We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be, some earlier, some later.
Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time. . . like me!