There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.