I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.

She walked with darkness dripping off her shoulders, I've seen ghosts brighter than her soul.

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate, ' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.

You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.

I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.