It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed….

On Heartbreaker, I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those so….

Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to….

The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and somet….

I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You….

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. ….

It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time..

Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how impo….

I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 ….

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, ….

I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I ….

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed s….

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversatio….

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine..

I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is….

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart..

Forever only takes its toll on some.

Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough..

What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job….

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for someb….

It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is ….