Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

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Cannot find the comfort in this world.

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It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

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Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

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Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

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I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

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It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.

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