There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.
When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing like I’m in a movie.
Some things were made to be felt.
I was never much of a bass player.
Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.
That’s why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can’t communicate otherwise.
I’m a big music fan outside of the music I make.
A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I’ve never been able to find on any record, but that I’ve always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn’t hearing yet.
You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I’m Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
It’s hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there’s so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.
I’ve never been to Vegas, but I’ve gambled all my life.
Forever only takes its toll on some.
I don’t think, that all my stuff could’ve been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.
I think it would be wrong to consider ‘Ashes and Fire’ a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.
I’ve gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don’t have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.
Bad nights lead to better days.
The night destroys the sun.
It’s hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.
Music is my thing. It’s my thing; it’s what I love. It’s what I do. It’s football to me; it’s Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.