“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.”

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.

Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’

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.

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