Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.