I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.