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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.