“I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.”

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

I’m not like them, but I can pretend.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

No one is afraid of heights, they’re afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they’re afraid of the answer.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they’re out there and it really bothers me.

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Who needs action when you got words?

Once you fall in love, It’s different.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Before I die many will die with me and they’ll deserve it. See you in Hell.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice.

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn’t

Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.

I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he’d get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there’s of course the lullaby which Dido sang, “If I Rise.” And then there’s this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Technically, I’m not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

I wouldn’t say that I’m the greatest guitarist ever. I’d say probably that I’m the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.