Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

You have to really know what you're saying.

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.