I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.