I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.

I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about.

Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.

You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Pain is the touchstone of all growth

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light.

My favourite dish is my chocolate mousse. It's like heaven on earth. It's the best chocolate mousse that you could ever imagine. You have to start with the highest-quality chocolate.

That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.