I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

I definitely have had fights with best friends. Some of them have led to me and said friend not being friends anymore, but it always turned out to be for the better. I think if you fight with someone, and you can just never reconcile, that just goes to show that maybe you shouldn't have been friends in the first place.

Wuthering Heights' is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!'

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.