I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.