With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to ….

I take things too seriously..

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry..

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self..

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on..

What we see is not always what exists..

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power.

...friendship is something you do..

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently..

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me..

Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe.

God is good all the time. Every time..

God created a system which gave us freewill..

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..

I follow the rules until I go against them all..

Make things better than they have to be..

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it..

To have what few have, do what few do..

I work in L.A. from time to time..

No. One. Comes. Before You..

There's definitely a melancholic ingredient in Cafe Tacvba concerts in the United States versus in other places..