I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.