I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.

If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone

Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?

I just want you to know who I am.

People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.

It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

Sometimes it's better to pretend as if you know nothing. The vast majority of people can't be trusted, but in God I trust.

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

The pawn is the soul of chess.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.