For me, I don't think I gravitate to listening to only dark music.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.

Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.