Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.

What do you think? Overkill?""I don't believe there is any such thing.But in this case, 'yes, overkill.

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.

Sometimes on the journey, you step in dog poop. But you don't let the whole journey be about the fact that your shoe got poop on it.

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.

Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle, Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.