Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame….

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read..

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame.

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….

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

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit..

The moth don't care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he's in the game And once he's in, he can't go back He'll beat his wings till he ….

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

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways..

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore..

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

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..

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

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

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..

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place..

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to br….

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation….

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument..

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

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