Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

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