It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

Perfectionist? Thats not something I am.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

Never live in fear or regret, live in lessons learned that make you better and keep going forward

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasnt pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.