Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.