But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

Who designed this world we live in?

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

New talents are the future.

Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.