And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?