Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

You can't get better at things you never play.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

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

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.