People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.