Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.