When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.