It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

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

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.