Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.

I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.

I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of happy idiots.

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.

If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.