I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.