I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

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

As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.