I earned my famous name.

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.