Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

I wanted to be listened to. I don't know if they were or not, though.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.