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

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

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

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.