When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.