Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.