Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

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.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

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

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.