That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

[The theme of his upcoming album, which follows his short Christmas CD released last year, is] pretty much love, ... Not sexual love, but love as in 'love your neighbor.'

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.