Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.