I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

I'm not really a very social person. It exhausts me when I'm out.

I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Mountains were made to climb, therefore dont cry when you see one.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.