Occupation: Musician Birth: August 1, 1964
There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involv….
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway..
I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventual….
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I ….
You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that..
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it..
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you..
Time and time again I can't please myself..
I've been playing music most of my life..
Your misery is everyone else's entertainment..
I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass.
You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel..
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time..
Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't ….
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, soci….
We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them ….
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.".
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a….
You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it..
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic..
Being in a band is about making the band the priority..