Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Creating happens in the midst of chaos.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.