When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.

I don't wish to embarrass anyone.