At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.