The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

I've never had writer's block.