I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Use it, Rosie, that's what it's there for.

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.