All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.