Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

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.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage

They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.