There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.