I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.

I loved laughing with him, loved that he could make me laugh.

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.