You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of 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.

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.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.