"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with tuberculosis."

"The more you learn about the world, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"I'm not a serious person. I'm a funny person."

"The only thing that matters is the music. If it's good, it's good. If it's not, it's not."

"Dropouts are the people who have the guts to look at the system and say, 'This isn't working for me. I'm going to find another way.'"