My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The most important thing in art is taste.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Life is easy if you let it and hard if you make it.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way

God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Tell them it was a foul.