It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared’s neck.

No matter what situations you experience in life, think about them as you draw conclusions about what the situations means for you

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

The flag of our Union forever!

it is the nature of stars to cross

Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.