Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

You are what you settle for.

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.