Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The most important thing in art is taste.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.