I Don't Write Happy Songs.

The Writer Who Refuses To Explore The Darker Regions Of The Heart Will Never Be Able To Write Convincingly About The Wonder, The Magic And The Joy Of Love For Just As Goodness Cannot Be Trusted Unless It Has Breathed The Same Air As Evil.

Songwriting, I Have To Take Myself Away From Everybody To Do. It's An Unsightly Act.

People Often Can't Separate, Or Can't Understand, That To Be Funny Is To Be Serious; It's A Way Of Pulling People In And Not Scaring Them Off. I Think A Lot Of The Funny Stuff, Underneath It, There's A Deep Anxiety Going On.

There Are Methods To Creating A Mayhem That Sounds Different From Your Usual Mayhem. Because Mayhem And A Heavy Drum Backbeat End Up Sounding Like Green Day Or Something. But If You Put A Different Beat Within It To Create Some Air And Lightness, The Chaos Comes Through Better.

I Don't Like Those Songs Where You Have To Listen To A Story To Get Into Them. I Don't Want To Have To Pay Attention To Music In That Way, I Just Want It To Hit Me In The Heart And Do What Music's Supposed To Do.