I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

You take the risk of being rejected.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.