I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

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.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

You must look through an opportunity and not at it.

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

It's not what you do, it's how you feel while doing it.

Liken yourself to a beautiful part of creation.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.