The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

You can - because you believe that you can.

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.