You are only as big as your experiences.

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.

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.

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

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

I was a weekend drinker...I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday...thought I was controlling it...but I don't drink any more.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I've always been in serious relationships. I meet someone and date him for a long period. I don't sit there thinking, like, 'I wonder if I can seduce that guy.' I have other things in my mind.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.

What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin War gets deep, some beef is everlastin

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.