I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.

I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

The two championship years were that significant for me.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

And here is our girl, looking-- If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.