I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

Most screen violence is tedious.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!