No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.