People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

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.

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.

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.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich?

Death is the great leveller.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.