My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

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.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

Just let your love flow like a mountain stream And let your love grow.

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?