The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

We live in ugly times.