I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The most important thing in art is taste.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

when a man", continued Raoul, "adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. ..""The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

Betrayal is sacred when the heart can encompass the whole.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.