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'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

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.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

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

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.