I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?