Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

The seed has been sown that will grow one day . . . to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

He who denies his heritage, has no heritage

It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

I want people to provide for themselves.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.