Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.