My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

I just like collaborating.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

My hits are not hits.

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.

Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.