Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I’m not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.
Rock records. It’s the main source of inspiration for people – fans, or musicians, or both – to act out in ways that they wouldn’t normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don’t really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.
I want to make sure I’m with a girl that’s a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That’s all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.
Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.
It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live – a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.
I use to be panicked, but know I’m curious!
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You’re self-consumed, and you’re always thinking. It’s really easy to say, “I’m going to write a song about this situation, and when I’m done, everyone will care.” To everybody else, that’s ego-tripping.
They don’t make coats for this kind of cold.
Can you still have any famous last words if you’re somebody nobody knows?
I routinely never discuss my marriage. It’s nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
I think that we live in a time where it’s easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
When You’re young, you get sad, and you get high.
I’m actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.
I’m a pretty bad troubadour. I’m more of a music fan who got away with making records.
I’m never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don’t think. And more than ever, I’ve had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.
Words may move but they’re never moving fast enough.
While the things I do kill me, they just tell me to relax.