I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

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.

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

Holding a loved one is something the soul remembers.

Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.