I don't mind saying what's on my mind.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?".

I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

My dad died when I was a kid, so I think it became a place for me to go where my mom knew that I was safe and taken care of and looked after.