All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can get you a nice little villa in Tuscany, and that's close enough for me.

There is no greater enemy than pride.

Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.

I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!