1- “People don’t realize how much fun it is to be depressed.”
2- “If you’re an American kid, you can’t help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they’re always on the radio,”
3- “I think it’s important for fans to know that but if I’m doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.
4- “‘The Beatles’ did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.” ”
5- “The reason there’s no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn’t have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
6- “And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.”
7- “Everybody is influenced by someone.”
8- “Be yourself is all that you can do.”
9- “And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.”
10- “Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.”
11- “Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.”
12- “I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.”
13- “I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.”
14-“She gives the night its dreams.”
15- “The words you say never live up to the words in your head.”
16- ““We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space.” ”
17- “I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn’t. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.”
18- “An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.”
19- “I don’t get in there and create a character. It’s more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.”
20- “There’s something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it’s not something that you get over. I don’t believe there’s a healing process.”
21- “It’s great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.”
22- “What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.”
23- “My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn’t know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.”
24- “At the end of the day it’s the fans who make you who you are.”
25- “Music is supposed to be inspired.”
26- “I feel like you’re not a real musician or entertainer if you can’t go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.”
27- “To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early ’90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you’re looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.”