I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

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.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.