The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The most important thing in art is taste.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

True, I was rather alone, but loneliness isn't proof of not being right.

Fact is is always truth but truth is not always fact

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve?

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?