You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

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.

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

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.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.