My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.