When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

You are only as big as your experiences.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.

I sang in choir as a kid.