I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.