You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write

We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego

He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

Could somebody explain to me why transgender people have become so important to Barack Hussein O? I'm serious.

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.