I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.