There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

I need to broaden my horizons.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

We are trying to find something to feel the void. It is only God who can fill the void.

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.

When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.