As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Never take a person away from the music they love.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

Your mind is your most important asset because it creates everything you have in life.

If I'll be funnier than this, I'll become a joke.

If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.

You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

We need the tonic of wildness.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.