“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

“Words are most important. I never wanted to write a song about nothing. After all, the impulse towards music is at its heart an urge to express something.”

“Truth hurts, but lies destroy.”

“You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker.”

“Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.”

“YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASKED NOT”

“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”