I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

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

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.