Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Trust nothing but your own experience.