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.

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

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.