I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

I dropped out of college, started playing music. I was going to do what I was going to do and it is what it is.

I'm so scared of flying.

I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.

I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We'd ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.

I don't get DRUNK before I play but I might get drunk after.

I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

I'm not raging drunk when I play. I just like to relax. Sometimes I stop and I tell people "I'm sorry, I'm really nervous".

My mum always told me, 'Have something to fall back on' and I never really listened.

I'm older, so it gets harder.

I've always been freaked out in my mind performing.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there's something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.