They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

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

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.