I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.

My problem was never with the major label, it was with the guy who we put our trust in and then wouldn't take my phone calls once we'd signed to a major label, who then quit.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

You tempt the devil, ” he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. “Angels always do.

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

A tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.