It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.

My problem was never with the major label, it was with the guy who we put our trust in and then wouldn't take my phone calls once we'd signed to a major label, who then quit.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

The roadmap to a rich, rewarding life is to follow your passion, to be willing to deviate, to never dull to the dawn of a new day and all of the possibilities it holds for adventure and discovery.

I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what Ishould have given her was a real journey on earth.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Conscience is God present in man.