You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it

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

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.

I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

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