I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

Better would be good. Because if she felt a little less like she’d been run over by a truck, she could jump on Dr. Hottie.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

In the morning prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings in the evening it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.