I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.