There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

There's nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you're lost and afraid

To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new.

When you love yourself too much, sometimes it becomes a problem, because it gets out of control. if you don't control yourself, you become yourself closest enemy !

Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.