Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.