I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.