If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

You can only get over your fears if you attack them head on.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

A mouse relies not solely on one hole.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.