Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.

Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.

I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.

I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

It is only when you trust in God that you can make it life

Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

Make a right, 40th Ave., that's when i smile and laugh

God warns before he wounds.