I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

If you want to be successful, begin to work zealously and persistently

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

Our country must have borders.

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.