Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

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

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.