Tolerance can lead to learning something.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

What if your Vision Board came true?

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about?

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.