If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.

The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set of muscles.

I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

Talking is the voice of human, singing is the voice of soul.

Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

I don't think of myself as a singer really.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.