I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.

Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.

I've always used Old English in certain songs.

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

Possibility is miraculous.

Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I’m now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

Regret is a form of punishment itself.