I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.