I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

Mom in the night The time will come Forests will be regrown People will be reborn When that happens Time will be remembered in history Because we won't count time anymore

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.