Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

For my daughter, it's going to mean something special that Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination, and I wanted to make sure that she sees that.

I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.