Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

The bond of love will unite the world.

Often we agree to shady but attractive propositions and as a result we have sorrow

The bassist -- always the bassist.

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.