I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

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.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

If only faces could talk.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.