I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

The young may die, but the old must!

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Limit love and you limit life.

As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.