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.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

I want my next girlfriend to be my wife.

As we enter this election year, let’s not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.