I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me.

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.