I'm probably a bit too wordy for some people.

I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.

I don't want to be sued and cursed-out later.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

Everybody wants to be more wanted, until they are.

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?