My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.