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.

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh, children are always singing. But I took music lessons, some choir and things like that at school. I learned how to play the guitar when I was about 13... ancient history.

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

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.