Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency.

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.