Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.

The love received is the love that is saved.