If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you’re right.

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.

India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals