What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Life don't owe you nothing.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.