I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

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.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.