For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.