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.

I've never been healthier. I haven't had a cigarette in two years. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week. I've been healthy and having a really good time.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.