I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.

Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.

I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.