"By nature of me being the one singing it and writing it there is always an innate bit of autobiography there ... but I think I learned years ago that you don't get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it's too much diary entry."

"I suppose any form of art can be said to be propaganda for a state of mind. Inevitably, if you are creating a painting, or writing a story, you are making propaganda, in a sense, for the way that you …"

"Yeah, I live a pretty Machiavellian life, and I'm a sceptic. I tend to believe the worst of people because I understand human nature. Human nature has never changed. That's why one of Stone's rules is…"

"I always think that it is entirely wrong to prejudge the past."

"Hopefully we will get this text in Estonian language, too, because so many Estonians have apparently lost all civilization under their nearest 20 years. Of course, therefore I cannot be sure that they…"