If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

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.

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.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.