The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.