My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about.

Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.

You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.

I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

Charisma and charm are endearing qualities which go hand in hand to make others feel “lighter, happier, and a little in love” when they are around you.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.