I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song, it's always really fun and exciting.

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

You become what you digest into your spirit. Whatever you think about, focus on, read about, talk about, you’re going to attract more of into your life. Make sure they're all positive.

If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.

Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of it, faster than any man will. If you really want to know... It's just the way it is.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.