When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

I woke up and one of us was crying.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.