I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

Not to be the salt and light on earth is to lack understanding

Madness. That’s what it was. And I could no longer contain it.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her ; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.

If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation reservation reservation.

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.