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.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.