We didn't want to reinvent ourselves with the new album. We felt that we had carved our own turf on the first record and we wanted to take everything we did and make it better, ... Version 2.0.

This is like being in a really big, long mine shaft. It's really just carved right into the earth.

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.

I come from a family of painters. My dad Ken is still a working artist. His dad used to paint as a hobby, and my great grandfather carved ships' figureheads. I discovered quite early on I had talent, but like all abilities it needed work and dedication.