I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

If you love music, than you can play music.

If we dare the difficult, we shall find the depth of being.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

If you want something, go get it.

I think 90% of women that I come into contact with are fans of [my hair].

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.