Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

We all need somewhere where we feel safe

How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.

Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.