Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.