With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.

Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist