Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind..

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone..

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug….

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow..

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the cont….

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to deat….

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels..

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor..

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker..

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become..

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing..

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew ….

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable..

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him..

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal wit….

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load..

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than h….

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolut….

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process..

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it..

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want..