I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

No money, no place to live – I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men and being born without a preference for a certain type of person. For me, that is my story in finding love in lots of different people, and that's been the second biggest influence in my music.