I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.