Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.