I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The process of applying music to words is a bit like scoring a film. You've got imagery.

I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.