I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.

Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself.

The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing.

You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.