I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.