I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

The truth is overrated.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.