Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

cause down the shore everything's all right

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.