"We weren't a band that got a deal, wrote a hit, and the next day had girls pounding on the limo windows. We had cops pounding on our van door because we were sleeping on a dead-end street."

"What moved me most about the film [City of Angels] was how it presented a metaphor of the defenses we develop to protect ourselves and how taking a leap or risk is so important to really live...to really be alive."

"Musical genres have become too segregated, in that people tend to focus on one thing, and that's it. Too much of it is about having the proper tattoo or the proper pair of shorts. Music tends to be identified with certain lifestyles now, as opposed to being about the appreciation of good songwriting."

"They [Mike and Robby] know I'm outta my mind. I'm the most neurotic... I make Woody Allen look like Clint Eastwood."

"Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger."

"Everybody's subdivided into their little, teeny groups, and it's so weird, you know, because…everybody's got these blinders on."

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived."

"When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made."

"You've got to surround yourself with people that are better than you...that way, you grow."

"I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men."