If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.