Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
I just want to be a guy with a guitar.
I've already created my own thing.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... The bones bend.
There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.
The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.
I am very observant of people's character.
I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.
All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.
I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
You can tell everything from the eyes.
I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.
I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.
I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.
I don't see myself in an ivory tower.
People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!
I just think too much sometimes.
To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.
She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.
I made a statement all my own.
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.
Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.
