They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.