I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't there, take it like they aren't your friends, find other friends. This are fake!

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it..

The tree is known by his fruit.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.