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"Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time."
"I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that."
"My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult."
"All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning."
"An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can’t find anything worth doing."
"After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here."
"We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order."
"Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious."
"We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life."
"I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane."
"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."
"I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot."
"The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium."
"Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep."
"You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad."
"There is no simple answer to what I think."
"It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool."
"I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling."
"I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile."
"I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better."
