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

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

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.