Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.

I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and 10,000 leaves. I will draw you a tree with four branches and three leaves, and I'll spend the rest of the week drawing inside of each leaf. In terms of the grand gesture, I reserve that maximum turbo blast energy for what I do as an artist, and I sing and dance for dinner.

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.