The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

Powerful people have no regrets.

I love the way you make me feel. I was incomplete without you.

If you enslave me with fake money, and I realize enslavement is fake. Its in your best interest to set me free!

Get busy achieving all the things in life you want to achieve, because one day you'll be fine and the next ....

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness.

When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.