I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

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

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.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.