I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

I love 'Fire On The Floor.' It's just smouldering. I think it's gonna be a fantastic piece to perform live. It's filled with passion. It's about when someone you know is so bad for you, but you can't...

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

My songs are my girlfriends. I have a secret romance with all of them. I romance with them year after year.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such...

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than...

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little...

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks...

I'm not going to answer that because it's ridiculous. I love you, Lainey. I've loved you from the day I met you, if not before, and I've loved you every day since. How could you even doubt that?

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

I was terrified of what might have happened to you, I choked

I wish Darcangelo were here. He'd fucking hate this.

I'm not going near anything that's going in the crack of his ass!

An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail.

The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile.

I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start

"Up and down' is Irish for anything at all - - from crying into the dishes to full - blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'."

I haven't got a clue on how to love you like a lover should, how to make you happy or even how to make you stay. I hardly grasp the essence of desire and true affection scares me more than it should,...

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.