I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.