I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

The truth is overrated.

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.