When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

Lord, I want to be up in my heart.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.