"You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time."

"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."

"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel."

"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."

"You know I used to listen to music a lot more."

"Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say."

"Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that."