Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.