Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello