Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.