When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

The sun don't shine in your TV!

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

To understand and be understood is to be free.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Time is more important to me than money.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons...and they have to just move.