The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom.

I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record..

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings..

Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Of course, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've neve….

Everything is deeply intertwingled..

Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happen….

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen..

You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for ….

What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures..

Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospec….

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself..

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts..

Money has no religion except itself..

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology..

When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how they went a week later - I remembe….

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was workin….

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily abou….

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times..

I am unable to rule anything out..

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-w….

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. T….