“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.”

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

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.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.

You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.

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 burns them black.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

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 with one entity.

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

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

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

I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.

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 context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.

What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.

The greed of drug companies is out of control and the cost is human lives.