I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style, but the core elements of what you do are just part of who you are.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.