I have not been a success, and probably never will be..

I don't care what studio I'm in, I don't care what producers is producing it and I don't care what song it is because they taught me those things I f….

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors..

What always was must always be..

Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy..

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustrati….

My marriage has worked because I am not around much..

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything..

If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic a….

I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of….

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There….

When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from somethi….

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling..

I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's ….

How can you live in the Northeast?.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through..

I like to do something I fear..

The things which must be must be for the best..

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk o….

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find..