All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Change is hard, but change is good.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.