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

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.