Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.

Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.

Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.

The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let your fears run you.

There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

I don't exist without writing.

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another.