To do something that will just fly away is kind of special. Every time somebody tell you they love you, that "I love you" flies away, and you wait until the next one.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.